Embracing Sustainability Challenge

Business Roundtable CEOs are embracing sustainable practices across their businesses, resulting in stronger communities and a healthier environment. CEOs are leading the way through investments, innovation and strategic decisions, toward a more environmentally and economically sustainable future.

Ginni Rometty, IBM

Sustainability

For over a decade, Business Roundtable CEOs have been a leading voice for the sustainability business case – demonstrating that environmental sustainability and economic growth in the U.S. can be achieved together. U.S. businesses are making a positive impact on sustainable outcomes which can be seen through major trends such as:

HP Inc.

Here at HP, we are on a journey to keep reinventing everything we do. At the heart of this reinvention is the need to create business that can have a lasting, sustainable impact on the planet, people, and communities where we operate.

Dion Weisler

President and CEO, HP Inc.

Sustainable Impact

Sustainable Impact is fundamental to our reinvention journey – fueling our innovation and growth, and strengthening our business for the long term. At HP, we seek to decouple growth from consumption and drive progress toward a more efficient, circular, and low-carbon economy. We aim to deliver the most environmentally sustainable product and services portfolio in the IT industry so that our partners and customers can achieve more, with less impact. We aim to reduce our footprint across our entire value chain, making our business more resilient for the future.

Planet goals

Use 100% renewable electricity in our global operations, with a goal of 40% by 2020

Imagine the size of an adult humpback whale. Now imagine the whale relative to an empty plastic water bottle. No comparison, right? In fact, it would take about 12 million empty plastic bottles (that’s nearly one bottle per every person in the state of Ohio) to balance the scale against just seven adult humpback whales.

Today there about 65,000 humpback whales in the world. Meanwhile, humans are producing about 20 million plastic bottles a second. The two facts shouldn’t be related, except a large portion of these bottles end up on shorelines and in waterways, contributing to the estimated 17.6 billion pounds (8 million tonnes) of plastic waste spilling into our oceans each year. In fact, research by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation estimates that by 2050, there will be more plastic, by weight, than fish in the ocean. And while humpback whales are mammals, not fish, protecting their ocean habitat is essential not only for all life below water, it’s vital for the sustainability of our planet and all people who live here.